Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-05
THE GLASS OF ,S7.

From the High School Next Week
 The Programme of the Week and
 Names of the Lucky Ones The Ten
 Highest Standing In the Class.
 Next week is graduating week at the Hill house High school. The examinations are being finished, and everything is being put in readiness for the closing week. The pres ent class is by far the largest, there being eighty-fve pupils, twenty more than in the previous largest class. The average age is lewer than of any class heretofore. The graduating exercises will commence on Tues day afternoon. There will be prizes to those
 who were the best readers in the school no
 matter of which class, by Principal Curtiss.
 The first prize is an order on any bookstore
 for $10 worth of books; the second prize is
 for $5 worth, and the third for $3 worth The
 committee which will decide the matter is Submaster James H. Whitmore the Rev. MT.
 Nichols and ex-Senator J. D. Plunkett, a
 member of the board of education. These
 have been selected by the competitors them selves.
 Another prize competition is instituted by MT. Curtiss for the best penmanship. The committee chosen to select the best writers are Professor Loverldge, Professor Lee and E. s. Wheeler. The class day exercises will l take place Wednesday afternoon. The liter ary part will be under the management of | the scholars exclusively, but the musical se- lections will be directed by Professor Jepson. There will be two musical selections, the first l being "Mice in Council,' and the second, | "When the Spring." The solos will be de- ! livered by Miss Hattie E. Myers.
 The opening address of welcome will be | delivered by Hippolyte w. Gruener, the
 president of the class. and seated on the | stage with him will be the secretary, James E. Wheeler. The treasurer is George Durkin. The historians, who will dilate humorously upon the eccen- tricities of their classmates, are Miss Char l lotts E. Hyde, Miss Georgia Hardy, James J. Buchanan and William M. Beecher. The young lady and the young gentleman who will prophecy the future careers are Miss Clara E. White and George A. Austin Miss Clara E.. Bradley will delight those present with the class poem. The class have elected a very promising young elocutlonlst, W. Matthew Kenna, to deliver the oration, the
 subject of which will be the class motto,
 "Per Augusta ad Augusta Through
 Trials to Triumphs."
 One of the exercises will be piano solo by
 Miss Bertha W. Gray, and George A. Austin, leader of the defunct H. H. G. Banjo club,
 will furnish a solo on that instrument.
 The class day committee is composed of Miss Caroline E. Taylor, Miss Mary Blatch- ley and Miss Susie B. Kinner of West Haven. The members of the emblem committee, who will choose the class picture which will be hung on the wall of the school hall, are Miss May c. Torbett, Miss Sara B. Wilkinson, Charles N. Gum and Clarence B. Twitchell
 The most important event of the week will occur on Thursday evening at Carlps Opera House, where the eighty members of the class will receive their diplomas
 Professor Jepson has prepared for this l evening a series of six grand vocal selections to be sung by the five hundred pupils of the | school, who will be seated on terraces at the | back of the stage. The pianist will be Harry | Jepson, a son of the professor.
 The selected essays to be read are as fol | lows:
 Gladstone and Ireland ''-Curtis c. Bushnell.
 Romantic Epochs Of History. y.''-Miss Cora L. l Fiske. ~
 "Gladstone and Ireland. "A L. May.
 ''Post Mortem Honors. Miss M. L. Turner. i
 Peter the Hermit and His Mission."-James E. 1 Wheeler; " N.Y., WILL,
 Are We Not All PIagiarists: s. B. Wilkin-
 The tenth essay and the valedictory will be deliv cred by A. W. Evans.
 After these exercises the class song, eve | Part To-Night," will be sung, Miss Hattie E. Myers, author of the words, singing the !! solo. Prof. Jepson wrote the music to which the verses will be sung.
 The following are members of the class: Elizabeth Allen, Idalia M Asher, *Kate M. D6SrS, IouIACd ID. DloAOP3 may ". DAoISh- ley, Clara E. Bradley, Sophie Calm, Kittie G. Campbell, Charlotte A. Clark, Isabel c. Donnelly, Cora L. Fiske, Alice E. Flanagan, Fife M Jones, Susie B. Kinner, Bessie L. Loveland, May B. Lyon, Mary A. McGuire, Maggie G. McNamara, *Alice s. McQuaid, Nellie G. Mears, Cordelia A. Merwin, Fannie E. Metzger, Mary c. Mills, Hattie E. Myers, Christina Galbraith, Carrie M. Neebe, *Ber tha w. Gray, *Lena H. Nichols, Georeia Hardy, Clara E. Pratt, Maria A. E. Hatch, *Mary 0. Robinson, Mamie E. Hogan, Sarah G. Scully, Charlotte E. Hyde, Julia Smith, Nora A. Sweeney, George E.. T. Durkin, Caroline E. Taylor, Alexander W. Evans, May O. Torbett, Theron R. Field, M. Lulu Turner, George F. Goodale, Meta E. Unger, Arthur c. Graves, Clara E. White, MI. w. Mabel H. Whittlesey, Henry H. l Guernsey, Sadie B. Wilkinson, *Charles N. Gum, Edith M. Williams, Chas. K. Hutch inson Adella M Wright, Roland K. Jones, George A. Austin, William E.. Beecher, James K. Blake, Joseph Bowden, William L. Bradley, Jeremiah s. Erie, James J. Buchanan, Fred. w. Burgess, Wm. P. J. Burke, *Curtis Q. Bushnell, Frank A. Busse. Arthur s. Cheney, Herbert A. Clark, Arthur G. Wal ter, w. Matthew KenRa, John w. Kenney, Henry F. Klenke, John H. Klock, John E. ). Lancraft, Albert E. Loveland, Frank A. Abraham L. May, Frank H. Mer- I win, Nathan w. Merwin, Wm. B. Newberry, l George T. M. Shanley, c. B. Twitchell, *James E. Wheeler.
 *Indicates that the scholar ranked among |